From The Regimental Flag: An Embarrassed Captain

part of a series from the regimental newspaper of the 2nd Delaware Infantry

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From The Regimental Flag (Vol. 8), March 13, 1862, pg. 3
AN EMBARRASSED CAPTAIN.

The Wheeling intelligencer gives the particulars of a recent affair in Western Virginia that created some little excitement in the Federal Army there. Captain W. was recently placed in the awkward dilemma of having two ladies in his tent at Grafton, both claiming to have a right to share his hospitalities. It appears that both ladies arrived by the same conveyance and inquired for his quarter, which they reached during his absence. Shortly afterward the gallant Captain came in and seeing at a glance that he was in for it, beat a retreat. The nice young woman gathered up her traps, and in less time that it had taken us to write this “own true tale,” was on her way back to Grafton in the same ambulance which brought Mrs. W to Beverly, and herself and the Captain to grief. But Mrs. W. was all that her dress and bearing denoted her, and instead of being satisfied with the young woman’s departure, informed the colonel of the regiment of all that had occurred, and after effectually exposing her husband, and denouncing him as a disgrace to the uniform he wore, put back after the nice young woman, whom she threatened to eat up alive and then apply for a divorce.